the street is our gallery

June 09, 2022 to June 26, 2022

Italian artist Alan De Cecco aka SODA has reinvented Graffiti lettering through the precise, geometric lens of an architect. Having studied architecture and design, this has been a clear influence on the artist and his painting career spanning 20 years.

Geometric structures and fragments merge and collapse in these urban environments as if weightless in space, they appear organised yet organic, they are attached to the walls yet float away from them, some with the energy of fragments shattered in a sudden explosion.

SODA’s debut London solo show, POLYGONS, will translate the essence of these forms to paintings, sculptural works, and pencil drawings.

Through his masterful control of black, white, and grey and exceptional shading using a spray can, there is a beautiful parallel between the work of this Italian Artist and Graffiti writer and the methods of Trompe l’oeil. Long used to describe an art technique in Renaissance painting, Trompe l’oeil uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the painted objects exist in three dimensions. The perspective is forced onto a flat surface, and it is this tension that SODA plays with in a futuristic and minimal way.

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POLYGONS opens with a private view on June 9th with the show running until June 26th.

Refreshments on the opening night provided by our good friends Vedett.

To attend the opening night or to be added to the collectors’ catalogue list please contact: [email protected].

Find BSMT at 529 Kingsland Rd, E84AR

Private view: 6pm – 9pm, Thursday 9th June 2022

Instagram: @bsmtspace & @sodagraffiti